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whether it's for personal files or for business security there are lots of reasons why you would want the data on a drive to be secure we're going to tell you everything you need to know about self encrypting AES 256-bit drives as fast as possible so first of all how secure is aes-256 encryption well it takes your plaintext password and re scrambles it 14 times to create an encrypted password that would take the equivalent of millions of years to break through using a top 500 supercomputers with no pre-existing knowledge of any part of your password one of the tricky things can be making sure that your platform supports self encrypting drives so many business notebooks for example do but the only way to know for sure is check with your hardware manufacturer and make sure that it's supported won t know is supported all you have to do is take a self encrypting drive plug it into your system set up the disk password or hard drive password and now all that information is stored on the drive itself so even if someone takes the drive out of your computer puts it into a separate computer and tries to read any data off of it they must enter the password in order to get access to your files as with any password creation process make sure you're using a mixture of Alpha characters numeric characters and special characters and don't use anything obvious like a birthday or a spouse's name or anything that someone with pre-existing knowledge of you would be likely to guess so the advantage of a self encrypting drive is it's at the BIOS level you can't get into the disk at all without the encryption password however there are software based options if you don't have a platform that supports the unencrypted drive or you don't have an encrypted drive using programs such as TrueCrypt as always guys don't forget to subscribe to tech quicky don't forget to like the video and share it with anyone who you think might benefit from this information if you have any ideas for future fast as possible episodes leave them in the suggestion forum which is linked in the description of the video